Chances are, whether you're aware of it or not, you've participated in
a spontaneous mass audience on the World Wide Web.
The Internet is so densely interconnected that a distributed mode of communication can quickly build into
a spontaneous mass audience.
For some time now, there has been an ad hoc means of dealing with logjams created by
spontaneous mass audiences — mirror sites containing copies of the original file.
But in a world where
spontaneous mass audiences are increasingly commonplace, we need a more collaborative model.